Norman Walsh is a Principal Software Engineer
with Arbortext Inc.,
the world's leading provider of content creation and
management software for enterprise XML applications. As a
member of the Engineering Group, Norman works on both the
next generation of Arbortext products and with Arbortext's
consultants and customers to develop and implement the
standards-based solutions that best meet their unique needs.

Norm is an active participant in several standards efforts,
including the DocBook Technical Committee of OASIS, where he
is a member of the Editorial Board. He is also the chair of
the OASIS Tables Technical Committee and a member of the W3C
XSL Working Group.

Prior to joining Arbortext, Norman developed online books and
web technologies for a publishing company and developed a
number of large web resources. Norman received his M.S. in
Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Leonard Muellner has been implementing and supporting the
production of O'Reilly books marked up in DocBook since 1994.

Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own
experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels.
Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to
technical topics, breathing personality and life into
potentially dry subjects.

The bird on the cover of DocBook: The Definitive Guide is a wood duck.
[Nicole still needs to get me the rest of the text.]

Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a
19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The
cover layout was produced by Kathleen Wilson using QuarkXPress
3.32 and Adobe's ITC Garamond font. The inside layout was
designed by Alicia Cech, based on a series design by Nancy
Priest. The text was formatted from SGML into FrameMaker 5.5
with Jade, using a DSSSL conversion stylesheet written by
Chris Maden. The interior fonts are ITC Garamond Light,
Garamond Book, and ConstantWillison.

The illustrations that appear in this book were produced by
Robert Romano using Macromedia Freehand 8 and Adobe Photoshop
5. David Futato was the production editor; Madeleine Newell guided
the book through the early stages of production.
Mark Nigara was the copyeditor for DocBook: The Definitive Guide.
Claire LeBlanc was the production manager. Ellie Cutler was the
proofreader; quality assurance was provided by Jeff Holcomb and
Claire LeBlanc. This colophon was written by Nicole Arigo.